Çafer

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Çafer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar).

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 7.8K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 4.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈46,000 people, est.

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cafer in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar).

Sources 2

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çafer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Çafer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#241≈46,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K#84Cafer84
SY Syria—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Cafer5
AF Afghanistan—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 23K—Cafer2
AZ Azerbaijan—≈600 est.≈1 in 17KlistedCafer6
AT Austria—≈360 est.≈1 in 24K18——
CY Cyprus#319≈300 est.≈1 in 4.2K—Cafer13
SE Sweden—1031 in 99K103Cafer14

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çafer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria, United States

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Cafer

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Çafer mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
Is Çafer a male or female name?
Çafer is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Çafer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Çafer in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cafer.
How common is the name Çafer?
In Sweden, the national register counted 103 people named Çafer, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
How common is Çafer compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Çafer is the 241st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7afer

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çafer” — the 241st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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